Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-06-08

former is a very embittered man. Mel
Their his palace looking down on Stan
ford's on Mob Hill, nor his superb place
at Menlo Park, seem to minister to his
mind diseased. He is greatly disap'
pointed in his boy, the latter being In
New York and making the biggest kind
of a fool of himself. j. G. Flood is
said to have given both his son and Miss
Jennie Flood S2,50O,OOO in U. ). four
per cent bonds, thus assuring to each an
income of $1,000 900. The gift to the for
mer he is asserted to have got hold OF in
some manner, and father and son are at
open war. The old lime dashing Bon.
ANA King, than whose no mans judg'
ment was more to be relied upon in
financial transaction, has lost heart and
is anxious to get out of business. lie is
greatly broken in health as well us wor.
ried IN mind, and it would surprise
no one if he should prove not to be long
for this world. His late visit TO Paso
Robes Springs did him no good what
ever. All these things lead Mackay to
desire settlement, and undoubtedly a
give or take proposition would follow
any delay in the adjustment of details.
THREE NOTABLE REPUBLICANS.
A great many political celebrities
have been in San Francisco of late.
The well known figure of United States
Senator John p. Jones may be encoun-
tered every day on the streets or at the
Palace Hotel. The Nevada Senator is
ageing somewhat, but he holds his own
capitally. He is one OF those men
whose hair turned gray at compare
lively early age, but his step still retains
its elasticity and his eye its wonted fire.
The movements of no one on the Pacific
Coast are watched more closely than
those of Senator Jones, and it is ques.
ton as to whether he is not personally
the most popular man this side of the
Rockies. The same street gossip which
/ have quoted before looks upon Jones
as the head and front of the "deal" in
stocks which is confidently looked for
some time next Fall. Alvinza Hayward,
his old partner in the Crown Point ma.
nipulations, and w. Ii. Hobart are said
to be his lieutenants, with John w.
Mackay as the power behind the throne.
Senator William NJ. Stewards stall
wart form is also seen at every turn in
San Francisco, as is also the sinewy and
nervous frame of Congressman Wood
burne. These three men, representing
the little State of Nevada-little most
emphatically as to population, as she
has not half as many people as the
county of Los Angeles-probably exert
as much personal and legislative influ-
ence as any three politicians in the
United States. This illustrates the ad-
vantage of sending men of force and
ability to Congress. 1t is pleasant to
know that they are all pillars OF
silver, and will see to it that
the mining interests of this
Coast are not sacrificed to Wall street.
Jones was the great Senatorial Cory.
pheus of the silver fight years ago,
while Stewards sparkling brochure in
answer to Czernuschi's pamphlet is per-
haps the brightest thing ever written on
a question OF such vital moment to Cali
fornia, to the United States and to the
world at large. Mr.. Woodburne is serv-
ing his seventh term in Congress from
Nevada, his long service having been
only once broken when the brilliant
Cassidy was elected by the Democrats.
WORD OF THE BERNHARDT.
l purposely deferred saying anything
of Sarah Bernhardt until she had got
through her programme and returned to
the East, and propose now only dwell
ing upon certain things which will not
call for much elaboration. Everyone
h al tha x,ys%ttaia,,s Of tho
of her excessive thinness. The story of
the stocking and the lead pencil, and SO
on, have become chestnuts as famed for
their antiquity as Thebes or Susan B.
Anthony. / saw the Bernhardt in Theo-
dora and in Fedora and can truthfully
say that she is not thin. She has superb
shoulders; and the arms, though not
plump, are not out of proportion. In
the dress in which the Empress Theo-
dora visits the sorceress near the old
circus she has succeeded in assuming
disguise which shows to perfection her
well nourished and strongly developed
person. Discarding corsets her ample
bosom and tine hips are displayed to
advantage. She throws her abdomen
forward with the pride and abandon
OF strong washerwoman who is in
the condition in which ladies wish
to be who love their lords, and who don't
care who knows it. Sarah il Il powerful
woman, and | have no doubt she could
take an ordinary lady of fashion and
hurl her half way up to the ceiling. In
the ball scene in Fedora she also shows
the strength, development and leopard.
like litheness and grace of her person to
perfection.
Many of your readers would doubtless
ask, SIS the Bernhardt pretty" 1t
would be hard 70 answer that question.
1t would be the better way TO say that
she has the beauty of genius. Seen en-
d. shabilte, with all the arts of the tot.
lette neglected, you might be tempted to
pronounce her ugly; but if she moved or
spoke, you would soon find yourself
responding to a subtle fascination.
Taken in connection with her matchless |
makeup" ON the stage, you would be
tempted to call her a goddess. The |
contour of her head is absolutely ella SSH |
cal. Juno could not boast severer or
more beautiful outlines, though Bern.
hardts nose probably deviates little /
from the exacting Grecian standard
Her pearly teeth make one indifferent
to the fact that in smiling she perhaps
shows little too much of the gum OF
the upper lip. But when her soul is
stirred by the tempest of passion. and
her clear, pulsating voice rises and falls
in the paroxysms of an energetic and
graceful defamation, never surpassed
by woman, you don't care baubee
whether Bernhardt is pretty or no. II
you have any soul or artistic impulses,
you are so Thoroughly subjugated after
In act or two, that you only know that
you have been listening to, and looking
It, woman of genius, and that You
would not have missed the treat for love
II money. j. ID. l..
San Francisco, June 5, 1887.
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